Why boys fail
Subtitle: saving our sons from an educational system that's leaving them behind
By: Richard Whitmire
Edition: Pbk. ed.
Publisher: AMACOM/American Management Association
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 239
ISBN-13: 9780814420171
Subjects: Motivation in education; Boys; Education
Notes: Originally published: 2010.  WIth new introduction; original foreword by Michelle Rhee omitted from pbk. ed.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Discovering the problem; title: The reason for the boy troubles: faltering literacy skills; title: The likely causes of the reading lapses; title: The writing failures; title: The blame game: what gets blamed (unfairly) for the gender gaps; title: Solutions: what works for boys?; title: Impediments to a solution: the ideological stalemate; title: The international story: Australians struggle with the boy troubles; title: Why these gender gaps matter; title: Actions that need to be taken.